Honorable Brad Sherman
U.S. Representative, California, Democrat
Representative Sherman, of the Twenty-Seventh District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002. He serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and is the ranking Democratic member on the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade. The following is excerpted from a November 15, 2011, statement during the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific hearing on “Feeding the Dragon: Reevaluating Development Assistance to China.” The idea that we would give foreign aid to China is an insult to the American taxpayer and shows an incredible lack of understanding of the new…